2023

On 17 April evening, JESC and the Group Passion for Europe organized a conference titled “What Hope for Europe? Rethinking the Christian Contribution.” About sixty attendants witnessed a very inspiring conference in the Chapel of the Resurrection and seventy attendants joined online.

En fecha 5 de abril de 2022, en la comunidad Santa Rosa del territorio autónomo guaraní de Huacaya, departamento de Chuquisaca, se llevó a cabo una reunión interinstitucional convocada por la Capitanía Guaraní de la Zona Santa Rosa de Huacaya, para coordinar la gestión y el uso correcto del agua de la pera construida en la comunidad Itangua.

In May, Jesuits from every Province and Region where the Society of Jesus is working will gather at the “Sanctuario de Loyola” in Spain for the 71st Congregation of Procurators, or “CP”. Announced in January of 2021, the CP was convoked by Fr. Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, in a letter to all Major Superiors of the Society.

The Secretariat has released on its website this week its annual report for the year 2022. Here is the text of the Secretary, Xavier Jeyaraj SJ who opens the report and presents its substance.

For decades, numerous actors from civil society, academia, the Church and other Churches, human rights activists, organisations and migrants and refugees have been calling for a transformation of migration policies and structures that implement them in Mexico and throughout the continent.

In the years since Laudato si’, the Society of Jesus and her ministries have found novel ways to act on Pope Francis’ call to protect not just the environment, but the people who are most vulnerable to the environmental consequences of unsustainable business practices.

A two-session training and exchange session aimed at teachers from FLACSI schools, in which, through real-life stories of people in situations of forced migration, we offer an update on the migration context in the region and some tools for awareness-raising work with students.

At a time of spiritual reflection during the soon-to-conclude Holy Week, it is also important to reflect on ACLO's developing work among the Pueblos Indígenas Originarios Campesinos (PIOC) and the Población Urbana Popular (PUP) in the Southern Region of Bolivia. High social and economic vulnerability and the effects of climate change characterise our work but with significant potential for cultural, ancestral and harmonious living in the community.

The first version of the Escuela de la Paz (Peace School) was held in Sucre City from 31 March to 2 April 2023 in the Azari retreat house. It aims to bring transformation in people through dialogue for constructive change of conflicts. Now, Sucre has its first Peace School.

“The government speaks of human rights violations as collateral damage [to the anti-gang crusade], effectively inciting people toward vengeance,” but “The gospel calls us to pursue dialogue,” Fr. José Tojeira, S.J., said in an interview with America.